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Chalcedectidae

Chalcedectid wasps of the world

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea)

Classification Identification Keys

Chalcedectus Walker, 1852
Distribution

Afrotropical, Australasian, Nearctic, Neotropical.

Biology Parasitoids of wood-boring beetle larvae (Bostrichidae, Buprestidae and Cerambycidae).

References

Ashmead, W.H. 1904. Classification of the chalcid flies of the Superfamily: Chalcidoidea, with descriptions of new species in the Carnegie Museum, collected in South America by Herbert H. Smith. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. 1(4):i-xi,225-551,39pls.

Bouček, Z. 1958. On Chalcedectus sinaiticus (Masi) from the Near East, and Ch. guaraniticus (Strand), from Paraguay and new synonymy (Hym. Chalcidoidea). Sborník Entomologického Oddeleni Národního Musea v Praze. 33:483-486.

Bouček, Z. 1958. Trichomalus lonchaeae, n.sp. (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae), a parasite of Lonchaeidae (Diptera) in Germany. Sborník Entomologického Oddeleni Národního Musea v Praze. 33:37-40, 1 fig.

Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea, a biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International, Wallingford, UK. 832 pp.

Burks, B.D. 1958. Superfamily: Chalcidoidea. (In: Krombein, K.V. (Editor). Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic Catalogue. 1st supplement.) Agriculture Monographs. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 2(first supplement):62-84.

Burks R, Mitroiu M-D, Fusu L, Heraty JM, Janšta P, Heydon S, Papilloud ND-S, Peters RS, Tselikh EV, Woolley JB, van Noort S, Baur H, Cruaud A, Darling C, Haas M, Hanson P, Krogmann L, Rasplus J-Y. 2022. From hell’s heart I stab at thee! A determined approach to rendering Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera) monophyletic. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 94:13-88. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.94.94263

Dalla Torre, K.W. von. 1898. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. V. Chalcididae et. Proctotrupidae. 598pp. Lepzig

De Santis, L. 1980. Catalogo de los Himenopteros Brasilenos de la serie Parasitica incluyendo Bethyloidea. Editora da Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba. 395pp.

Gibson G.A.P. 1993. Superfamilies Mymarommatoidea and Chalcidoidea (pp. 570-655). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Gibson, G.A.P. 2003, Phylogenetics and classification of Cleonyminae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae). Memoirs on Entomology, International 16: 1-339.

Heraty, J.M., Burks, R.A., Cruaud, A., Gibson, G.A.P., Liljeblad, J., Munro, J., Rasplus, J.-Y., Delvare, G., Janšta, P., Gumovsky, A., Huber, J., Woolley, J.B., Krogmann, L., Heydon, S., Polaszek, A., Schmidt, S., Darling, D.C., Gates, M.W., Mottern, J., Murray, E., Dal Molin, A., Triapitsyn, S., Baur, H., Pinto, J.D., van Noort, S., George, J. & Yoder, M. 2013. A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Cladistics 29: 466–542. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cla.12006

Schmiedeknecht, O. 1909. Hymenoptera fam. Chalcididae. Genera Insectorum. 97:1-550. Brussels Ed: Wytsman, P.

Sharifi, S. and Javadi, I.. 1971. Control of Rosaceae branch borer in Iran. Journal of Economic Entomology. 64(2):484-486.

Steffan, J.R. 1968. Observations sur Chalcedectus sinaiticus (Ms.) et descriptions de C. balachowskyi sp.n. (Hym. Chalcedectidae) et d'Oopristus safavii gen.n., sp.n. (Hym. Torymidae), deux parasites d'importance économique en Iran. Entomophaga. 13(3):209-216.

van Noort S, Gibson GAP, Ranjith AP, Mitroiu M-D. 2026. Revision of Chalcedectidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from the Afrotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic regions with description of eleven new species. Zootaxa 5781: 1-106. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5781.1.1

UCD Community. 2023. Universal Chalcidoidea Database Website. https://ucd.chalcid.org.

Walker, F. 1852. Notes on Chalcidites, and descriptions of various new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2). 10:45-48.

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